Lewis Finney

Probably tweeting about LUFC ⚽️ or England 🏏

[Lewis Finney @LewisFinney18]

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In anticipation of the government's promised review of the Gambling Act, I took a look at the relationship between gambling and football and how that relationship effects British society. I made a podcast about it called 'Gambling and Football - A Complicated Relationship'

[Roberto Parrottino @rparrottino]

Marcelo Bielsa: “Jugar cuatro tiempos en lugar de dos altera la concepción que culturalmente se había construido para interpretar el fútbol. No le agrega nada y le quita mucho. Cuando se dividió en cuatro no se pensó en el efecto que puede tener sobre lo que hizo que el fútbol sea un deporte que enamora, sino que se pensó en otro tipo de repercusiones que no las discuto ni las analizo. Antes de esta decisión el fútbol tenía una característica; ahora tiene otra. La gente se enamora del juego por sus características”.

[Lewis Finney @LewisFinney18]

Stop the count

[Out of Context Football Manager @nocontextfm1]

Average FIFA ranking of teams each country beat to get to the World Cup (playoffs not included):

🇺🇾 Uruguay - 36
🇵🇾 Paraguay - 36
🇨🇴 Colombia - 39
🇦🇷 Argentina - 42
🇪🇨 Ecuador - 42
🇧🇷 Brazil - 45
🇨🇭 Switzerland - 53
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland - 65
🇪🇸 Spain - 68
🇩🇪 Germany - 77
🇫🇷 France - 78
🇵🇹 Portugal - 78
🇹🇷 Turkey - 79
🇳🇴 Norway - 93
🇰🇷 South Korea - 99
🇮🇶 Iraq - 102
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England - 104
🇦🇺 Australia - 106
🇯🇵 Japan - 107
🇶🇦 Qatar - 107
🇬🇭 Ghana - 111
🇲🇦 Morocco - 112
🇮🇷 Iran - 113
🇯🇴 Jordan - 113
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan - 117
🇿🇦 South Africa - 118
🇧🇪 Belgium - 119
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia - 119
🇭🇷 Croatia - 121
🇸🇳 Senegal - 121
🇳🇱 Netherlands - 128
🇦🇹 Austria - 131
🇧🇦 Bosnia - 131
🇨🇩 DR Congo - 132
🇨🇻 Cape Verde - 133
🇵🇦 Panama - 133
🇩🇿 Algeria - 134
🇨🇿 Czech Republic - 137
🇪🇬 Egypt - 139
🇨🇮 Ivory Coast - 140
🇹🇳 Tunisia - 140
🇭🇹 Haiti - 141
🇨🇼 Curacao - 146
🇳🇿 New Zealand - 162

Canada - N/A (host)
Mexico - N/A (host)
USA - N/A (host)
Sweden - N/A (0 wins in qualifying)

[Lewis Finney @LewisFinney18]

@Ankaman616 Uruguay are in crisis - a loss and a draw in the first two games. They need a win in the last game Vs spain to get through. Marcelo bielsa's head is being called for. They smash them convincingly and continue through til deep, maybe even the final, cementing Bielsa as a legend.

[Lewis Finney @LewisFinney18]

Say what you will about the squad choices - and I will - but this is wonderful.

[England @England]

Come Together.

[No Score Draws ✍️ (Alex & Sian - BOOK OUT NOW!) @CheapPanini]

Hooray, our World Cup 2026 Wall Chart is FINISHED 🥳

It's our biggest wall chart ever, an A1-sized shambles sullied by SIXTY wonky doodles.

If you'd like a free one, RT this and we'll send out a couple of freebies to some (un)lucky RTers. Otherwise, shop link below x

[goalpostFC @GoalpostFC]

🚨 Rutter delivers in stoppage time with a sensational finish!

TOTTENHAM 2–2 BRIGHTON

https://t.co/T7FONx1hhv

[Lewis Finney @LewisFinney18]

If only the powers that be remembered that this is all it's ever been about

[Out Of Context Football @nocontextfooty]

https://t.co/GT16N8UVQT

[Nick Harris @sportingintel]

"HERE WE GO!": the lowdown on "football journalist" Fabrizio Romano

https://t.co/CFBWUTmWcq

[Tez @tezilyas]

Reform: we don’t like you and your kind!

Okay… well I’m gonna vote for the person most likely to defeat you then 🤷🏽‍♂️

Reform: tHis iS sEcTaRiAnIsM

[Harriet Harman @HarrietHarman]

Suella Braverman asked for my help to get mat leave when she was Attorney General. As first pregnant AG she needed new rights. (I helped ofc, she took mat leave and returned to govt office) Depressing she now plans roll-back of rights for aother women! https://t.co/TtGf7qVD2E

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Steve Bannon has *finally*been indicted.

BIG news in America. But let’s not forget Big Steve’s interference in our own democracy. (And how Facebook has facilitated him at every turn.)

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[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

BREAKING 🚨 | Reform announce plans to legalise discrimination.

Plans include scrapping the Equality Act, which would legalise discrimination against a worker if they were a woman, disabled, black, pregnant or gay.

From ripping up equality protections, to backing fire-and-rehire, to opposing a ban on zero-hours contracts, Reform UK have made it clear whose side they’re on – and it’s not working people.

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

Spotted outside Old Trafford 👀

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

The anmount of Tax avoided by Jim Ratcliffe's move to Monaco could pay for an extra 120,000 NHS nurses.

It's not immigrants that are the problem. It's billionaires.

[xD🇪🇸 @jugrmn]

This might genuinely be one of the greatest football lockins ever

[Lewis Finney @LewisFinney18]

'The club will remain open to late possibilities' while everyone else around us actively looks to strengthen. Feels like we've been here before, more than once.

[Graham Smyth @GrahamSmyth]

The latest Leeds United expectation is likely what many have been expecting.

#lufc

https://t.co/fdG58H8CnN

[Ben Kentish @BenKentish]

Hi again @RachelReevesMP - I got this today from a young doctor from a low-income family. She can’t afford to buy a house because, while she’s paying back £2,560 in student loan repayments a year, you’re charging her interest at a rate of £7,800 a year.

Which part of this is “fair”?

[Oli Dugmore @OliDugmore]

“Low tax” conservatives would scream bloody murder if I suggested raising the top rate of tax by 9%

Perfectly happy to whack grads with it for 40 years, though, and scratch their chins about the birth rate

[Lewis Finney @LewisFinney18]

Decibelland Road

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Daniel Farke still has some Leeds fans to convince but last night showed why he deserves support. Got his tactics right, 3-5-2. Got the mood right, helped by Ampadu’s intensity, impassioned fans and an early goal. Plenty of comments about Chelsea’s individual mistakes but Farke’s players forced the mistakes. They’re playing for him. Needs to keep Calvert-Lewin fit. Liverpool visit Decibelland Road, 5.30pm, Saturday. #LUFC